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Tanuki

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 09:22 AM Mar 2016

HRC goes local in Cleveland: Tamir Rice, lead poisoning, equal opportunity, jobs (HRC group)

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2016/03/hillary_clinton_plays_up_local.html#incart_m-rpt-1

"Hillary Clinton stuck to local issues in her speech Tuesday in Cleveland, where she promised to invest in manufacturing, small business and clean energy if elected president — issues high on Ohioans' priority lists.

She struck a positive tone in her short speech at Cuyahoga County Community College's Metropolitan Campus, where a mixed-race crowd packed the gymnasium not far from predominately black neighborhoods in Cleveland. She went so far as to compliment her primary opponent, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. "This has been a campaign focused on issues," she said. "And I'm proud of the campaign Senator Sanders and I are running. "[Our differences] pale in comparison to what has happened on the Republican side."
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Clinton lamented the shutdown of Eaton Corp.'s Berea plant, announced last month, despite what she described as the generous tax breaks the city affords the manufacturer. More than 100 workers will be laid off, and their jobs will be outsourced to Mexico.
"And to top it off they gave their CEO a payout of more than $11 million," she said. "We should make corporations pay for these so-called inversions. I want companies to know if they walk out on America they are going to pay a price."

......She circled back to gun violence later in her speech. "I have met mothers who have lost their children to gun violence," she said. "They are turning their mourning into a movement; all of them are living out what the scripture tells us."If we reach for love and kindness instead of bluster and bigotry, we can see the best in each other not the worst."
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HRC goes local in Cleveland: Tamir Rice, lead poisoning, equal opportunity, jobs (HRC group) (Original Post) Tanuki Mar 2016 OP
Thank you for this, Tanuki.. Cha Mar 2016 #1
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